Critical Point Theory and Submanifold Geometry

Preliminaries.- Local geometry of submanifolds.- Weingarten Surfaces in three dimensional space forms.- Focal points.- Transformation groups.- Isoparametric submanifolds.- Proper Fredholm submanifolds in Hilbert spaces.- Topology of isoparametric submanifolds.- Elementary critical point theory.- Advanced critical point theory.- The calculus of variations.

List of contents

Preliminaries.- Local geometry of submanifolds.- Weingarten Surfaces in three dimensional space forms.- Focal points.- Transformation groups.- Isoparametric submanifolds.- Proper Fredholm submanifolds in Hilbert spaces.- Topology of isoparametric submanifolds.- Elementary critical point theory.- Advanced critical point theory.- The calculus of variations.

Product details

• Authors: Richard S. Palais, Chuu-lian Terng
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2009
• EAN: 9783540503996
• ISBN: 978-3-540-50399-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 474 g
• Illustrations: XII, 280 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics / Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Tianjin, P.R. China; Lecture Notes in Mathematics; Lecture Notes in Mathematics / Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Tianjin, P.R. China; Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Tianjin, P.R. China
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Geometry